The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-12-02
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Gen. Cafarel, who previous to this trouble
bore most honorably the untarnished name
of noted family, and who had borne
arms for his country for many years,
winning the highest praise for his bravery
and his sagacity in times of war. But in
the excitement and indignation of the
volatile Gaul because of President Grevy's
attempts to shield his son-in law, Caffarel
has become almost forgotten.
Nine. Limouzin has most 1nsavory
reputation. She hassllways been intimate
with French public men, and when she
reached financial straits nothing was more
natural than that she should bethink her.
UTtferS aS
of her purse. In return for the coveted
decorations, which she would obtain by
hook or crook through Caffarel and others,
she would receive goodly sums, which she
of course shared with her assistants in
high life.
Premier Rouvier is drawn into the mat
ter only by reason of his loyalty to Presi-
dent Grevy in attempting to stave off the
investigation of the scandal. AT least
this was his attitude at first, though he,
too, has at last turned against Grevy
for his defense of Wilson. Rouvier is
a lawyer and was born at AK in 1942.
While practicing his profession at Mar
seilles, he assailed the empire in the oppo-
sition press, and after Sept. 4, 1870, was
made secretary general of the prefecture
of Bouches du in Rhone. In 1871 he was
elected to the national assembly, where he
acted with the extreme left He was ap-
pointed o member of the commission for
judicial reform in Egypt, and in this ca
pacity sustained with great zeal the inter-
ests of France in the east. In 1876 he
was elected deputy, again allied himself
with the extreme left, and was made sec
retary of the chamber. He was one of
the 1858 deputies who, in the following
year, refused vote of confidence in the
Broglie cabinet, and in 1878 he was re-
elected. In 1881 he entered the cabinet,
and he was made prime minister in 1886.
He is the husband Of the lady who writes
over the pseudonym of Claude Vignon,
The president of the French republic
receives salary Of $120, 900 a year, and
is surrounded with as much pomp and cir
cumstance as any European monarch, and
much more than the Prince CT Wales. He
is worth at least couple of million of
dollars, and reckoning by the franc, the
French monetary unit, is a ten million
aire at the lowest estimate. His fortune
was originally left him by his father, and
is estimated by certain persons at three
times the amount given above, 1t is GER
tainly very large, for it has been steadily
accumulating ever since the death Of the
elder Grevy.
President Grevy is now "a years old and
his full, name is Francis Paul Jules Grevy.
He is a native of Mont-Sous- Vernet
and comes from a line of magistrates.
Naturally he was educated to the law.
When practicing his profession he was
considered one of Frances most able ad-
: vocates He was commissioner in the
provisional government OF 184S and was a
member of the senate in 1850. His efforts
had much to do with the amendment1to to
the constitution for the election of the
president by the secret ballot of the as
semb1y When Napoleon HI triuihphed
NJ. Grevy retired to private life, from
which he did not re-enter till 1863 when
he was elected a deputy by his home
district Republican in politics, he has
always belonged to the conservative
branch of the party. He fought to defeat
the amendment making the presidential
term ten years, holding that the next step
would be to. make the term. a life one.
He also bitterly opposed Mac Mahon, who
doubtless desired to establish a dictator
ship for himself NJ. Grevy was made
president in 1870. sss s. lE'5